"Just because the Left is hateful, doesn't mean that Musk is rational, a heroic producer, or a good guy."

"The Left is out in force attacking the very existence of a trillionaire. Their nihilism and envy are on naked display.
    "So it's tempting to defend Musk as [some kind of hero of] Capitalism. He's not.
    "He has not only lobbied for subsidies, but promoted the global warming rubbish as part of the Narrative to justify the policy of promoting alternatives such as electric cars (also for another of his companies, Solar City which he had Tesla buy at an overvalued price to bail out himself and his cousins). And promoting the rubbish economics of taxing one company to subsidise another, from which he gained ill gotten loot.
    "He has committed securities fraud. That's when you lie to investors for the purpose of getting them to buy your stock (he said he was taking it private and had lined up the financing--his own Board of Directors was forced to come out and say he's lying). He got a slap on the wrist from the SEC, but any other CEO would have gone to prison.
    "He has committed consumer product fraud, claiming 'full self-driving' since 2017. The Federal Trade Commission told him to stop calling it that, it doesn't work without human attentiveness at the wheel.
    "He has lied to promote a total grift: Hyperloop. These lies were gobsmacking in their mendacity.
    "He is now promoting a collectivist utopian dream of 'making humanity a multi-planetary species' to mask his grift of a trillion dollar NASA contract to send a dozen people to Mars and back. ...
    "The list goes on.
    "Just because the Left is hateful, doesn't mean that Musk is rational, a heroic producer, or a good guy.
    "P.S. when he was in charge of DOGE, he [also] helped himself to all sorts of govt data without any controls or even audit trail. ..."

~ KW